If you do, the wound strings won't seat properly in the saddles and instead sit on top of them. If your Les Paul bridge has string saddle notches that are sized on a per-string level, then no, you cannot flip the bridge around.
Whether you can safely do this or not basically depends on one factor. This is typically done with ABR-1 bridges because then you get some extra screw length to work with for intonation. Traditionally, ABR-1 has the intonation screws facing front towards the neck, and Nashville bridges have screws facing the tailpiece.īut let's say for the moment you wanted to flip the bridge around the other way.
